CPI leader writes to Rajnath Singh over security to JNUSU leaders

JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar during a protest march in New Delhi recently. (Photo: PTI)

Even as JNU continues to simmer, CPI general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy has written to Union home minister Rajnath Singh on the issue of security to JNU student leaders, particularly JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar. Earlier, CPI national secretary D. Raja had raised the issue with the home minister demanding security cover for Mr Kumar, but to no avail.

Mr Kumar, who belongs to the AISF, the student wing of the CPI, has got support from the Left, particularly the CPI and the CPI(M). Stealing a march over the other Left parties, the CPI has taken up the issue vociferously, demanding an increase in security cover provided to Mr Kumar. The CPI has also demanded that law enforcement authorities book the anti-social elements.

“I would like to bring to your notice that a countrymade revolver, fully loaded with live cartridges, was found in a bus to JNU on April 13. The police have seized it after an alert. A letter signed by Mr Amit Jani, a self-appointed president [of the] UP Nava Nirman Seva threatening to kill Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid, another student leader of JNU. Mr Amit Jani threatened to kill Kanhaiya Kumar through Facebook earlier, and later pasted posters with an award to anybody who will kill Kanhaiya Kumar. We complained to the Delhi police and I wrote a letter to you in this regard. CPI secretary and MP Comrade D. Raja also personally met you and represented on this issue. I am surprised that he was not arrested in spite of those open threats. Now, finding a countrymade revolver is a much more serious thing,” Mr Reddy has said in his letter.

“A section of people are poisoned intentionally with wrong news and doctored videos that Kanhaiya Kumar and some Left students have raised anti-India slogans in JNU. The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar by the Delhi police under police commissioner Mr Bassi has added suspicions of misguided people. Police could not prove the guilt of Kanhaiya Kumar,” he wrote. The CPI hit out at the BJP-led government, saying: “Some BJP leaders, including president Mr Amit Shah and some MPs with political motive alleged that JNU has become the centre of anti-national elements and got big publicity. The whole thing looks like a big well-planned conspiracy to physically eliminate Kanhaiya Kumar through some extreme elements,” he is learnt to have said in his letter.